***THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD***

[Lucky9teen]

Come at me...

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Mike Portnoy "Name That Tune" on Hello Kitty Drum Kit

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These 25 facts you’re about to read sound totally false, but go ahead and check for yourself.

#1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

#2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

#3. France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres.

#4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company.

#5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States.

#6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.

#7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.

#8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.

#9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.

#10. Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months.

#11. Shakespeare made up the name “Jessica” for his play Merchant of Venice.

#12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.

#13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.

#14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets.

#15. Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.

#16. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

#17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.

#18. A strawberry is NOT a berry.

#19. A banana IS a berry.

#20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid.

#21. An octopus has three hearts.

#22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.

#23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway.

#24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy

#25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa.

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[glock rocks]

It was true when the USSR existed.

[TexasCajun]

[PROCON]

#23 is demonstrably false

Going east there are several, and going west there is at least Japan and Canada

In all 7 dimensions?

[TexasCajun]

[Lucky9teen]

Dad's be like, "Now this is how you rave"

[Dallas59]

TGIF!

[Lucky9teen]

[wideawake]

A better way to put it would be that you can get from the Norwegian border to the North Korean border by passing through only one country.

[Dallas59]

To hell with Mudasir!

[dragonblustar]

[Dallas59]

[Disambiguator]

Happy Friday!

Based on this list, there should be a lot of duplicate posts today. Plus, there is enough material here to last through the end of October.

Police 10 codes

10-1 Reception poor
10-2 Reception good
10-3 Stop transmitting
10-4 Message received, understood
10-5 Relay message
10-6 Change channel
10-7 Out of service
10-7A Out of service, home
10-7B Out of service, personal
10-8 In service
10-9 Repeat message
10-10 Off duty
10-10A Off duty, home
10-11 Identify frequency
10-12 Visitor(s) present
10-13 Weather and road advice
10-14 Citizen w/suspect
10-15 Prisoner in custody
10-16 Pick up prisoner
10-17 Request for gasoline
10-18 Equipment exchange
10-19 Return(ing) to station
10-20 Location
10-21 Telephone
10-21A Advise home I will return at:
10-22 Disregard last assignment
10-23 Stand by
10-24 Request car-to-car transmit
10-25 Do you have contact with:
10-26 Clear
10-27 D.D.L. report
10-28 Registration request
10-29 Check for wants
10-29F Subject wanted, felony
10-29H Hazard potential from subject
10-29M Subject wanted, Misdemeanor
10-29V Vehicle wanted
10-30 Doesn’t conform to regulations

[AppyPappy]

It is still true

[Lucky9teen]

Hey Trump, Biden called. He wants his creepy back.

[Travis T. OJustice]

[glock rocks]

Da. More coffee.

[Lucky9teen]

[ShadowAce]

That may be true, but that’s not how it was phrased

[glock rocks]

... or ... Duh. More coffee.

[Slyfox]